Fix a lot of things following from Jan's comments.

[matthijs/master-project/report.git] / Chapters / Context.tex

diff --git a/Chapters/Context.tex b/Chapters/Context.tex
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--- a/Chapters/Context.tex
+++ b/Chapters/Context.tex
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 \chapter[chap:context]{Context}
   An obvious question that arises when starting any research is \quote{Has
-  this not been done before?} Using a functional language for describing hardware
+  this not been done before?}. Using a functional language for describing hardware
   is not a new idea at all. In fact, there has been research into functional
   hardware description even before the conventional hardware description
   languages were created. \todo{Reference about early FHDLs} However,
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
   code after compilation, or using Template Haskell to inspect parts of the
   code you have written). This allows the full power of Haskell for generating
   a circuit. However it also creates severe limitations in the use of the
-  language (you can't use case statements in Lava, since they would be
+  language (you can't use case expressions in Lava, since they would be
   executed only once during circuit generation) and extra notational overhead.
 
   We will now have a look at the existing hardware description languages,
@@ -86,10 +86,10 @@
       variables (\eg, using the same variable twice while only calculating it
       once) and cycles in circuits are non-trivial to properly and safely
       translate (though there is some work to fix this, but that has not been
-      possible in a completely reliable way yet. \cite[gill09]
+      possible in a completely reliable way yet \cite[gill09]).
       \item Some things are verbose to express. Especially ForSyDe suffers
       from a lot of notational overhead due to the Template Haskell approach
-      used. Since conditional statements are not supported, a lot of Haskell's
+      used. Since conditional expressions are not supported, a lot of Haskell's
       syntax sugar (if expressions, pattern matching, guards) cannot be used
       either, leading to more verbose notation as well.
       \item Polymorphism and higher order values are not supported within the
@@ -99,10 +99,10 @@
       programmers), but the described circuits do not have any polymorphism
       or higher order functions, which can be limiting. \todo{How true or
       appropriate is this point?}
-      \todo[left]{Function structure gets lost (in Lava)}
+      \todo{Function structure gets lost (in Lava)}
     \stopitemize
 
-    \todo[text]{Complete translation in TH is complex: Works with Haskell AST
+    \todo{Complete translation in TH is complex: Works with Haskell AST
     instead of Core}
 
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